Paul Gardner-Stephen

Enhancing mobile mesh telephony

So, what's the big idea?

Paul is making the open-source Serval Project the premier mesh telephony platform, thus empowering individuals and communities to meet their own telecommunications needs, and to maintain telecommunications capacity when infrastructure is unavailable or unaffordable.

He hopes that this will help connect the last billion to affordable telephony, and the last five and a half billion to the internet, and thus narrow the digital-divide.

Paul Gardner-Stephen's flash grant nominations

Twice a year we award a number of small grants to a collection
of social change agents, no strings attached, in support of
their work. We call these Flash Grants and recipients are
selected based on nominations from our Fellows. Each award is
worth $5,000.

Spend breakdown

At the heart of our co-investment fellowship model is the
principle that Fellows continue to invest in their own
ideas. The Foundation amplifies the Fellow’s investment by
matching it at least tenfold, along with covering the cost of
their time for the year.

The figures you see here do not reflect each Fellow’s
fellowship year funding, but rather the funds unlocked within
our financial year, as the fellowship years start either March
or September and Fellows are not required to spend the
available funds proportionately throughout the year.